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05/22/2013 01:00 PMThe author of the beautiful acclaimed memoir The Foremost Good Fortune shines in her exquisite debut novel. Paris Was the Place focuses on Willow Pears, an American living and teaching in Paris at a center for immigrant girls who’ve requested asylum in France. The culture, flavor, keen detail, and observation, and literature of Paris, India, and the U.S. are lyrically interwoven in a story about hope, love, family, forgiveness, expectation, risk, loss, and letting go. Conley’s novel is sprinkled with humor, as well as questions about social justice, relationship, human tragedy, and grace. A must-read!
—Sue McCann of Essex Books, Ivoryton
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